Articles of Interest - May 16

 

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Network Algorithms Are Distorting Reality By Boosting Conspiracy Theories (Talk of Facebook's anticonservative stance is in the news, but the issue of what news social networks choose to show us is much broader than that)  Fast Company

Periscope makes broadcasts permanent by default and introduces search  The Verge

Do aspiring YouTube stars need to pack up and move to L.A.?  Daily Dot

Suicide on Periscope in France is the latest in live-streamed horrors  Washington Post

Facebook's news saga reminds us humans are biased by design  The Guardian

The history of social networking  Digital Trends

Snapchat wants you to be able to take selfies in voting booths  Daily Dot

Social Media, Smartphones And Long-Form Journalism: What's Up With Facebook?  Forbes

The Slack generation: How workplace messaging could replace other missives  The Economist

Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit  Bloomberg

***PRODUCING MEDIA

How Readers Engage with Long-Form Content on Mobile Devices  PBS MediaShift

14 free image resources for content marketers  PR Daily

Things I Learned About Shooting 360 Videos  PBS MediaShift

For the first time, mobile gaming will make more money than traditional videogames  Quartz

***TECHNOLOGY

Here’s looking at you: Smart glasses may have a big future at work  Economist

Twitterbots United: fake followers could wreck the election  Wired

***ART AND DESIGN

How Typography Can Save Your Life  ProPublica

***BIG DATA  

Using data analytics to tackle the information overload among researchers and publishers in science/medical/tech  Inside Higher Ed

Bayesian probability in your everyday life: confirmation/denial of your suspicions. The why over the probability  Inverse

Is the skill shortage subdividing Big Data by tools and education?  Computer World

How Big Data is affecting politics--the dive into social #nalytics and the effort to weaponize data'  Datanami

Our brains employ similar algorithms to those inspired by Bayes theorem. Does this mean our Brains are Bayesian?  Scientific American

***JOURNALISM

Jeff Daniels reprises 'Newsroom' anchor role for 2016 presidential elections  USA Today

Snapchat for journalists: a great big guide Online Journalism Blog

The Value of Data Journalism  Real Clear Politics

Buzzfeed Is the Only New Media Organization on Facebook's ‘Most Trusted' List  Motherboard

Nate Silver has a Donald Trump problem: Where does data journalism go now?  Salon

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

A Time and Place for Paid Content (Over six in ten Americans say they are comfortable with companies paying to publish articles that look like news as long as there's a disclaimer)  Harris Poll

Local news startup Ripple apologizes for taking other people's news  Recode

***STUDENT MEDIA  

At Cornell, the College Daily Will No Longer Be Daily  New York Times

Student Reporter Interviews Obama. First Question? The Fafsa  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Language in transition: How student journalists cover transgender issues  Student Press Law Center

Student Newspaper Editors Say School Banned Them From Posting Online because refused to to use "Redskin" in a headline  LevittownNow

How to investigate if your school is inflating gender equity numbers  Reveal

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The Main Thing: Every morning just look at your calendar and ask yourself one question: “What’s the main event today?"  Becoming

Numbers in the News Quiz - 9  Becoming

***GRAMMAR         

East Asian words make it into Oxford English Dictionary  The Guardian

***WRITING& READING

Everyone is deleting pronouns from the beginning of their sentences — here's why  Business Insider

Dashing Through  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***RACE

Reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim gets treated differently at federal courthouse  Minneapolis City Pages

How the Teacher’s Race Affects the Teaching of Race  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How psychologists used these doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics  Washington Post

***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Campus Tour Guides Should Know the Facts About Sexual Assault  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Temple News’ longform piece on sexual assault on campus  Temple News

Push Grows For A 'Scarlet Letter' On Transcripts Of Campus Sexual Offenders NPR

Professors Are Being Forced To Reveal Sexual Assault Confidences, Like It Or Not  Huffington Post

Taking Sexual Assault to Twitter  Inside Higher Ed

***RELIGION

As U.S. Attitudes Change, Some Evangelicals Dig In; Others Adapt  NPR

Atheist Ad Mocking Noah's Ark Park as 'Genocide and Incest' Center Rejected by Billboard  Companies  ABC News

3 reasons conservative Christians will lose the transgender debate (opinion)  Religious News Service

‘Take it off! This is America!’: Man who yanked hijab pleads guilty to religious obstruction   Washington Post

Gender gap in religious service attendance has narrowed in U.S.  Pew Research

Report Reveals cover-up of leading missionary surgeon who sexually abused 22 women and girls  Religious News Service  

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Evangelicals raise hell over Trump's VP search  Politico

Mississippi religious liberty law challenged in court  Baptist News

Trump mounts Twitter war with the Southern Baptist Convention’s chief ethicist  Religious News Service

NBC News Exit Poll Results: Lacking a Clear Champion in 2016, White Evangelicals Voted for Trump  NBC News

Many Evangelicals Are In 'An Awkward Place' With Trump Atop GOP  NPR 

***STUDENT LIFE

Study: Millennials want brand managers out of their ears—and feeds  PR Daily

Chinese University Incentivizes Students To Be Polite  NPR

Young Americans Drink More, Eat Worse, and Stay Skinnier Than Everyone Else Bloomberg

The Minecraft Generation- How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching millions of children to master the digital world  New York Times

How badly companies misunderstand millennials  Washington Post

***JOBS

Top 10 Mistakes You Might Be Making with Your Job Search  Life Hacker

How to make a good first impression on mobile job apps  USA Today

7 Tips For Job-Seeking Graduates DNA Info

How to ace a Skype interview  USA Today

National Labor Relations Board: Your Employer Can’t Force You To Be Happy At Work  Huffington Post

***SCIENCE

Why scientists should learn to fail, fast and often  StatNews

***PSYCHOLOGY    

Does The Placebo Effect Influence Consumer Product Purchases?  NPR

Suicide rates are rising in America, and in other rich countries  Economist

Major Counseling Organization Protests Tennessee’s Anti-LGBT Counseling Law Huffington Post

***PHILOSOPHY

‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Is Secretly All About Ancient Greek Philosophy  Decider

Teaching Students Philosophy Will Improve Their Academic Performance, Shows Study  BigThink

***HIGHER ED

A growing number of colleges and universities are emphasizing civic engagement in their curriculum  Inside Higher Ed

Discount at Private Schools reach new record levels  Inside Higher Ed

Chilling Higher Ed Cooperation in China?  Inside Higher Ed

Supreme Court Sends Birth-Control Case Brought by Religious Employers Back to Lower Courts (Outcome suggests justices would have split 4-4 on the merits of the case)  Reuters

Academic-Freedom Spat Triggers Wave of Resignations at Religious College  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Texas Christian University misspells its own name in commencement program   Houston Chronicle

Student sit-in at Jesuit School because Dean used the N-Word.. in a book Title  Inside Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Study by faculty members at West Point finds students perform better academically when laptops and tablets are banned from the classroom  Inside Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Rutgers professors vote a second time to seek access to and limits on use of data from Academic Analytics  Inside Higher Ed

Articles of Interest - May 2

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Hillary Clinton just invented the Snapchat attack ad  Business Insider

The reverse-chronological social media feed is dying  New York Magazine

4 social media rules for handling celebrity passings  PR Daily

UCLA Student Media director resigns to support continuation of publications Daily Bruin

Stanford Daily enjoys record traffic from John Boehner 'Lucifer' scoop  CNN

Wesley College newspaper editor speaks out over controversial cartoons  WMDT

***PRODUCTIVITY

Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy  The Atlantic

Many Grouchy, Error-Prone Workers Just Need More Sleep  NPR

***BIG DATA  

10 Questions for the Nations First Chief Data Scientist from Science Friday  Science Friday

You no longer fit a model. Instead, you train the task. Deep Learning: What it is and why it matters  SAS

Data science and machine learning cheat sheets for--Python R Spark Hadoop Hive Django--dozens more  KD Nuggets  

Python, Machine Learning, + Dueling Languages--what's best for serious productivity?  Open Data Science

The Chicago PD's crime analytics mess is an example of one of 4 reasons data analytics in government often fail  Governing

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Transition and Change (Transition is the process of letting go of the way things used to be and then taking hold of the way they subsequently become)   Becoming (my blog)

10 Things You Need To Remember If Your Life Isn’t Turning Out The Way You Thought It Would  Thought Catalogue***RESEARCH

5 Tips to Avoid P-Value Potholes: #5- Some potholes are deliberately hidden (shining light only on p’s less than .05)  PLOS

***RACIAL ISSUES

Do the Words "Race Riot" Belong on an Historical Marker in Memphis?  NPR

***GENDER ISSUES

University of Washington removes cheerleader tryout tips after social media backlash  New York Daily News

Two national college applications will move beyond traditional gender binary  Inside Higher Ed

Job Prospects For The Class Of 2016 Are Pretty Good, Especially For Men  Huffington Post

Sexual harassment training may have reverse effect, research suggests  The Guardian

Women Write War Fiction, Too  Jstor

***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Brigham Young Students Claim University Punished Rape Victims For Reporting  NPR

College plans policy review after sex-assault case criticism (Open letter on FB says Georgia school bungled its investigation of his sister’s rape in a dorm room)  Dispatch

***LEGAL ISSUES

It May Soon Be a Lot Harder for the Law to Get Into Your Email  Wired

Google wants to change copyright laws—and that’s a good thing (opinion)   Daily Dot

***RELIGION

A closer look at Jehovah’s Witnesses living in the U.S.  Pew Research Center

Satanists balk at Cruz comparison  The Hill

Congress Likely To Get Its Only Openly Atheist Member In NovemberHuffington Post

Evangelical woman vows to bring pistol into queer-friendly Target bathrooms  Huffington Post

Religious Freedom Face Serious Threats Worldwide  NPR

***MUSIC

How Steely Dan Wrote “Deacon Blues,” the Song Audiophiles Use to Test High-End Stereos Open Culture  

Why Freddie Mercury's Voice Was So Great, As Explained By Science  NPR

Peter Frampton Plays a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, Featuring Acoustic Versions of His Classic Songs  Open Culture

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

TV networks battle new media threat as Facebook looms over ad war  The Guardian

***JOURNALISM

These Men Finally Understand How Bad Women Have It In Sports Media  Huffington Post

Las Vegas Columnist Quits After Ban On Writing About New Owner  NPR

Facebook and Twitter are buttering up news publishers — here's why  Business Insider

Esquire removes satirical article after criticism  Politico

Google’s test to let media publish directly in search can’t be great news for Twitterrecode

New York Times boss sued over alleged ageist, racist and sexist hiring practices  The Guardian

Journalism Professor Will Go to War for Free Speech, as Long as It Doesn’t Mock Him  Gawker

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Managing the Decline of Print: The New York Times Looks to Cut Costs   Fortune

The news industry can’t cut its way to quality (opinion)  Poynter

Digital publishing news jobs now outnumber those in the newspaper business, BLS reports  Talking New Media

***STUDENT LIFE

A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows  Washington Post

***SCIENCE

False images top form of scientific misconduct  Canadian Medical Association Journal  

Theoretical physicists have a "license to be excited" and "run amok."  Here's why  Science News

***PSYCHOLOGY    

LGBT Activists Criticize Tennessee Law Allowing Therapists To Refuse Patients  NPR

***NEUROSCIENCE

Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head  The Guardian

The “Brain Dictionary”: Beautiful 3D Map Shows How Different Brain Areas Respond to Hearing Different Words   Open Culture

***ETHICS

New Study: Ashley Madison Hack Study Shows Correlation Between Personal Ethics and Professional Ethics  NPR

How Ethical is Geoscience?   The Grumpy Geophysicist

***PHILOSOPHY

Animated Introduction to 25 Philosophers  Open Culture

 

***LANGUAGE / GRAMMAR

Lawsuit Will Decide Who Owns 'Star Trek' Language Klingon  NPR

A conversation with the world's leading authority on the English language about big data, Google ngrams, and language change  Business Insider

***LITERATURE

The Ultimate Literary Cage Match: Hemingway vs. Faulkner vs. Trump  The Millions

Ian McKellen launches app to make Shakespeare easier to understand  AV Club

The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear and Tear  Open Culture

***HIGHER ED

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi on investigatory leave due to ‘serious questions’  Sacrameto Bee   

Why Colleges’ Brands look so similar (To sell themselves, colleges try to stand out. But often, their marketing efforts look practically identical)  Inside Higher Ed

Law student says he was almost expelled for writing in favor of gay marriage  Fusion

Former ORU student says school is blocking her re-admission over her marriage to a woman  Tulsa World

***TITLE IX

U.S. Publishes Details on Religious Colleges Seeking Title IX Waivers  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Updated List of Institutions that have requested Religious exemptions to Title IX (As of April 1, 2016, 232 colleges had obtained a religious exemption from Title IX and 31 requests are pending)  Dept. of Ed.

NCAA Hesitant to Condemn Religious Institutions that have Requested Title IX Waivers  Inside Higher Ed

Feds Publish Records On Schools Allowed To Discriminate Against LGBT Students  BuzzFeed

Lawsuit: Prof Punished for Opposing Gordon's Title IX exemption request  Inside Higher Ed

Education Dept. Releases Title IX Exemptions, Requests  Inside Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Learning From My Teaching Mistakes  Chronicle of Higher Ed   

A Moment of Clarity on the Role of Technology in Teaching  Chronicle of Higher Ed   

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Professor puts CV of his failures online to give perspective  Associated Press

 

 

Articles of Interest - April 25

***BIG DATA   

New book focuses on #BigData's dreaded correlation does not imply causation problem  Inside Big Data

Gartner "warns of approaching apocalypse for IoT data management" (Needed: lithe strategies for managing data gov)  Smart Data Collective

Data Analytics Myths (#1- Quantitative analysis is better than human intuition)  Electronic Design

10 Questions for the Nations First Chief Data Scientist  Science Friday

***WRITIN’ AND READIN’

Readability, Understandability, and ETS  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***GRAMMAR         

Testing for knowledge of a fictive grammaticality distinction  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why grammar mistakes in a short email could make some people judge you   The Conversation

***LANGUAGE

How to identify any language at a glance  The Week

***RESEARCH

Cancer Research Is Broken (There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs)  Slate

Want a favorable peer review? Buy One  Stat

You Pay to Read Research You Fund. That’s Ludicrous  Wired

Publication Bias Is Boring. You Should Care About It Anyway  Mother Jones

Power of positive thinking skews mindfulness studies (Trials of mindfulness to improve mental health selectively report positive results)  Nature

***GENDER ISSUES

Restrictions on Women’s Religious Attire  Pew Research

Single women are reshaping America from marriage to politics to the economy  Economist       

***RACE

Bystanders are less likely to help black people in medical emergencies, a study finds  Business Insider

The disturbing racial bias in who we help when they need it most  Washington Post

When It Comes To Flight Safety, When Does Alertness Become Racial Profiling?  NPR

FCC’s mandate won’t help diverse storytellers  San Diego Reader

How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’  Washington Post

How a journalist caught the cops whitewashing their ticketing records  Poynter

Death Row’s Race Problem The case of a Texas death-row inmate, now before the Supreme Court, points to the troubling racial history of capital punishment  Wall Street Journal

***LEGAL ISSUES

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google book-scanning project  Reuters

***IMAGES

British Library posts 1 million copyright-free images online  Boing Boing

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Live-Streaming Of Alleged Rape Shows Challenges Of Flagging Video In Real Time  NPR

How Facebook plans to take over the world  The Guardian

Facebook Tweaks News Feed To Measure User Time  Media Post

How a dating app for burrito-lovers exposed one of online dating’s biggest myths  Washington Post

Most Americans spend two full workdays a month on Facebook  Quartz

***AUDIO

Breaths Of Fresh Air: The Art Of The Terry Gross Interview  Audible Range

Can audio go viral on Facebook? Here’s what happened when NPR ran an experiment for a month   Harvard's Nieman Lab

***FILM

Just How Does Film Work, Exactly?  Digg

The 100 Most Memorable Shots in Cinema Over the Past 100 Years (video)  Jacob T. Swinney

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Making exterior changes to avoid internal changes  Becoming

A Cautionary Tale Of The Cc Line  Media Post

Numbers in the News: Quiz 7  Becoming

Short sleep may be tied to cold or infection risk  Reuters  

***RELIGION

The Repression of Religious Studies (subscription)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Raunchy Prince was actually a conservative Christian who reportedly opposed gay marriage  Washington Post

Whole Foods Market to sue pastor for cake scam  KGNS-TV

Church Honors ‘Dearly Beloved’ Prince By Putting His Lyrics On Sign Huffington Post

My wife and I are white evangelicals. Here's why we chose to give birth to black triplets (opinion)  Washington Post

Most U.S. Catholics rely heavily on their own conscience for moral guidance  Pew Research

How police took $53,000 from a Christian band, an orphanage and a church  Washington Post

***MUSIC AND ART   

Are Algorithms Ruining How We Discover Music?   FiveThirtyEight

More people are paying to stream music, but the industry is still wobbly  Economist

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

A Bright Side to the Financial Stumbles of Digital Media  New York Times

***JOURNALISM

The Fading Newspaper  Bloomberg

Journalism has an editing crisis, but we can do something about it  Poynter

2016 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts  Associated Press

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

A potential bid by the Daily Mail for Yahoo may make sense  Economist

Gannett Makes A Bid For Tribune Publishing  NPR

Bad news: why TV is going the same way as print journalism  The Conversation

The Center for Investigative Reporting bets it can change audio journalism—and itself  Columbia Journalism Review

Want to get a journalism job? Here are the skills you need, according to a new report  Poynter

***STUDENT JOURNALISM

UWS student paper's April Fools' Day issue draws backlash   Duluth News

Journalism Adviser Under Fire Wyoming college accused -- twice now -- of retaliating against a student newspaper by threatening the job of its faculty adviser  Inside Higher Ed

At Some Universities the line between Journalism and Public Relations is Blurred Student Press Law Center

***STUDENT LIFE

When Slogans Replace Arguments: a truly open-minded discussion of race issues (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed

Schools and colleges are requiring fitness trackers for students, but there may be unintended consequences  Daily Dot

Why becoming an adult means something very different when you’re poor Washington Post

***JOBS

Licensing Laws Are Shutting Young People Out Of The Job Market  FiveThirtyEight

Freaked out about Finding a Job? LinkedIn Launches App for Students to Help USA Today

Personal statement: 10 of the most overused openings  Telegraph

***SCIENCE

 Cleaning up bad science  CBC

***PSYCHOLOGY    

This unusual test reveals how smart you are  Washington Post

Explaining The Paradox Of Why You Shouldn't Trust Unanimous Decisions  Digg

1 Question Is All You Need to Judge Someone's Personality  Inc.

 A review of “Unbroken Brain” (Conventional wisdom insists that addiction is a disease, like cancer. But addiction is learned; cancer isn’t. Most people grow out of drug use)  Wall Street Journal

***ETHICS

Spoof Papers And The Ethics of Academic Publishing  Discovery

Do ethicists hinder HIV prevention research?  Reuters

***LITERATURE: SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare Saw '360 Degrees Of Humanity,' And That's Why He Endures  NPR

Shakespeare Or Batman? That Is The Question  FiveThirtyEight

How the New York Times would write William Shakespeare's Obit  New York Times

400 Years After Shakespeare’s Death, He’s Still Required Reading (Even For Econ Majors)   FiveThirtyEight

Shakespeare: Dead or Alive?  Jstor

***HIGHER ED

How (Not) to Hide a Scandal (There’s a fine line between a marketing campaign and a cover-up. The attempt by UC Davis to get its pepper spray incident off the top of Google searches is a case in point)  Inside Higher Ed

UC-Davis Was Ridiculed for Trying to Sway Search Results. Many Other Colleges Do the Same  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Ed Dept pushed to focus on student achievement and troubled colleges Inside Higher Ed

Report on the future of online education stresses central role of faculty members and instructional designers  Inside Higher Ed

Head of embattled for-profit-college agency resigns  Inside Higher Ed

How Choosing a Cabinet Helped Put One College President in Peril Chronicle of Higher Ed

Hope College Moves Away from Immediate Plan to Fire President  Inside Higher Ed

***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Under Fire, Brigham Young Will Review Title IX and Honor Code Enforcement  Chronicle of Higher Ed          

Brigham Young University has a troubling policy of investigating students who report rape  Business Insider

Brigham Young Student Who Sought Immunity for Assault Victims Files Title IX Complaint Chronicle of Higher Ed

WATCH: Fake college acceptance letters highlight sexual assault  USA Today

Lawsuit Takes Aim at Education Dept.’s Title IX Guidance (An accused student blames federal pressure for how his university treated him)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Justice Dept. Slams U. of New Mexico Over Sexual-Assault Policies Chronicle of Higher Ed

Dept. of Justice: Title IX requires violating the First Amendment  FIRE

***TEACHING

Look for the Exceptions (In the process of correcting students’ mistakes, don’t forget to focus some attention on what they’re doing well)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Final Round of Advice for Final Exams  Chronicle of Higher Ed   

the unfinished self

The human self (is) not simply a finished product, a kind of entity, but a developing process. A self is not simply something I am but something I must become. To be sure, there is also a sense in which the self must have a kind of substantial reality, for there must be something that is undergoing the process of becoming. But the substantial reality of the self includes potentialities, and thus selfhood is a process in which a person must try to “become what one already is.” This unfinished self gives shape to itself through its choices; every decision I make is also a decision about what kind of person I want to be.

C. Stephen Evans, Introduction: Kierkegaard’s life and works

Articles of Interest - April 18

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Engineering Spiritual Growth  Becoming (my blog)

Organization is a Skill, Not a Trait  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Important Habit of Just Starting  Life Hacker

***THE INTERNET                       

The secret rules of the internet (The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech)  The Verge

The Internet Should Look More Like Reddit and Less Like Facebook Media Shift  PBS MediaShift

***WRITIN’ AND READIN’

The harsh truth about speed-reading  The Daily Dot

The Narratee and the Typo  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Creative Writing of the Internet's Premier White Supremacist Forum  Gawker

A Farewell to Adverbs (Why computers will never write novels)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets  Washington Post

***GRAMMAR         

Poetically Punctuating (subscription)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

People obsessed with grammar aren't as nice as everybody else, study suggests  Mashable

***LANGUAGE

That Emoji Does Not Mean What You Think It Means  Gizmodo

How the Internet is changing the English language  Daily Do

***LITERATURE

Cao Wenxuan: Chinese author wins top children's literature prize  BBC

Fahrenheit 451 film in the works at HBO  Entertainment Weekly

How a Google Spreadsheet Saved My Literature Class  Chronicle of Higher Ed

At National Library Week, A Look At How Libraries Transform in the Digital Age  PBS MediaShift

“What’s in a name?”: Was William Shakespeare popular during his lifetime?  OUP blog

An Evening with Nikki Giovanni -- Point Loma Writer’s Symposium by the Sea 2016  UCSD TV

***RESEARCH

Why our peer review system is a toothless watchdog  Stat News

***GENDER ISSUES

What happens to boys who kill women in video games  Washington Post

See Where Women Have The Most And Least Political Representation In The U.S.  NPR

Gender Bias Built Into Cinema: The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue (Over 4 Million Lines in 2,000 Scripts) Reveals Gender Bias Built Into Cinema   Open Culture

The problem with almost all movies   Washington Post  

***RACE

What Does Time Perception Have To Do With Racial Disparities?  NPR

‘When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression’ (opinion) Huffington Post

When It Comes To Terms Like 'Colored People's Time,' Context Matters   NPR

Guess Who Is Writing a Book on Race? Rachel Dolezal  Ad Week

Southwest Air kicks Muslim woman off plane for switching seats  BoingBoing

A popular video game now randomizes your race and gender — and many white men are furious  Vox

Hundreds of Wisconsin Faculty Members ‘Refuse to Be Silent’ About Classroom Arrest  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***TECHNOLOGY

Your face is big data  (facial recognition can identify complete strangers)  BBC

***SOCIAL MEDIA

How Social Media Inflates Our Perception Of Our Choice Presidential Candidate  Bloomberg View

In Its Fight Against Fake News, Facebook Found A Resilient Foe  BuzzFeed

Facebook's New Master Plan: Kill Other Apps  NPR

Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency   Gizmodo  

The new face of Facebook (The social network has turned itself into one of the world’s most influential technology giants, and wants to become ever more powerful)  Economist

USA Today Breaks Story: Teens Love Snapchat  Gawker

You can predict city gentrification through check-ins and tweets  Engadget

How Facebook Could Tilt the 2016 Election  The Atlantic

Why it's now impossible for WhatsApp to help agencies like the FBI access messages  Vox

Reddit Realizes It's 2016, Launches Mobile App  Fortune

***MUSIC

Who Owns 'We Shall Overcome'? All Of Us, A Lawsuit Claims  NPR

Kendrick Lamar sued for allegedly copying Bill Withers song  The Guardian

Radiooooo: A Musical Time Machine That Lets You Hear What Played on the Radio in Different Times & Places  Open Culture

***BIG DATA  

The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos  The Intercept

The dirty little secret about visualizing data-it's as much an art as a science  Washington Post

FBI: a mysterious hacking group has had access to US govt files for years  MotherBoard

***RELIGION

How highly religious Americans’ lives are different from others   Pew Research

Tennessee governor vetoes bill making Bible official book  Fox News

Despite harassment by police, China’s house-church movement is growing  Economist

In 5 Years, Donald Has Given Nothing to Charity  Ad Week

Many Americans don’t argue about religion – or even talk about it  Pew Resaerch

SNL’s religious freedom movie (video)  Vox

John Kasich Meets Talmudic Scholars, Tries to Explain Bible to Them  New York Magazine

The Evangelical Onion  Patheos

Fake news that’s good for the soul  Washington Post  

Gay waitress says Bible verse left in lieu of tip  WBTV-TV

***JOURNALISM

2016 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts  Associated Press

The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t telling you  Washington Post

Panama Papers Leak Signals a Shift in Mainstream Journalism  New York Times

What Instagram’s algorithm change means for journalists  GateHouse Newsroom

Washington Post Fact Checker gets dressing down from readers; Twitter hashtag goes wrong  Polimedia

A new understanding: What makes people trust and rely on news  American Press Institute

The future of journalism in three words: collaboration, collaboration, collaboration  The Guardian

Journalists, beware: Twitter is less potent than you assume  Poynter

How newsroom pressure is letting fake stories on to the web  The Guardian

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Catholic News Service editor asked to resign after Tweeting about Religious Liberty Bills  National Catholic Reporter

Mashable gets out of news business, moves towards video content about ‘digital culture’  Mashable

For News Outlets Squeezed From the Middle, It’s Bend or Bust  New York Times

***SCIENCE

Science fairs are as flawed  Stat News

***PSYCHOLOGY    

Ha ha HA Haha. The Sound Of Laughter Tells More Than You Think  NPR

Why Luck Matters More Than You Might Think (When people see themselves as self-made, they tend to be less generous and public-spirited)  The Atlantic

How Political Candidates Know If You’re Neurotic MIT Tech Review

***NEUROSCIENCE

This is what happens to the brain when it's on LSD  Mashable

How Does a Mathematician's Brain Differ from That of a Mere Mortal?  Scientific American

Why the baby brain can learn two languages at the same time  The Conversation

Is Too Much Screen Time Damaging Your Child’s Brain?  Psychology Today

***ETHICS

What Do You Owe the Friends You Unwittingly Scammed?  NY Times

We all lie, scientists say, but politicians even more so   Associated Press

This unusual test reveals how smart you are  Washington Post

***STUDENT LIFE

College Student Uses 3-D Printer To Fix His Crooked Teeth  NPR

Students ask college to bar controversial social app   Jacksonville Journal-Courier

Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away  NPR

***CAMPUS CRIME

Crimes reported against Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian students have the university reeling  Inside Higher Ed

***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

'Crying silently': VP Biden advocates for sexual assault victims during Week of Action   USA Today

Prosecutor says rape case is threatened by BYU Honor Code investigation  The Salt Lake Tribune

John Kasich Tells Student Worried About Sexual Assault to Avoid Parties With Alcohol  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Colleges lose series of rulings in suits brought by male students accused of sex assault. In stinging decisions, judges fault lack of due process  Inside Higher Ed

Do codes of conduct, especially those at faith-based institutions, discourage students from speaking up about sexual assault?  (subscription)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***FREE SPEECH

Calif. university spent $175,000 to counter negative Internet posts: newspaper  Reuters

***HIGHER ED

Are Colleges Too Obsessed With Smartness? (we value students with top grades and scores to the detriment of everybody else)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Education Twitterati (At an American Educational Research Association panel, academics discuss the rewards -- and risks -- of using social media to advance public scholarship)  Inside Higher Ed

Hope College Moves Away from Immediate Plan to Fire President  Inside Higher Ed

Head of embattled for-profit-college agency resigns  Inside Higher Ed

Online Learning Trends at Community Colleges  Inside Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Stanford Physicist Embarks On Mission To Improve Undergraduate Teaching NPR

Teaching Magazine Students More than Magazines  Media Shift

***ACADEMIC LIFE

New research finds professors spend considerable time in meetings and on administrative tasks, and much of their time alone  Inside Higher Ed

Philosophy Prof says he was fired for posting a music video on his personal blog  Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Listen Slowly

Some years back, I was snapping at my wife and children, choking down my food at mealtimes, and feeling irritated at those unexpected interruptions through the day. Before long, things around our house reflected the pattern of my hurry-up style.

After supper one evening, the words of one of our daughters gave me a wake-up call. She wanted to tell me something important that had happened to her at school that day. She hurriedly began, “Daddy-I-wanna-tell-you-somethin’-and-I’ll-tell-you-really-fast.”

Realizing her frustration, I answered, “Honey, you can tell me... and you don’t have to tell me really fast. Say it slowly.”

I’ll never forget her answer: “Then listen slowly.”

Charles Swidoll

Articles of Interest - April 11

***SOCIAL MEDIA

How to Use Snapchat  Wired

Instagram rolls out 60-second video option  PR Daily

Snapchat Content Survey: How Much Millennials Actually Use Live Stories, Discover and More  Variety

Facebook Users Are Sharing Fewer Personal Updates and It's a Big Problem  Fortune

How to make your GIFs load fast every time  Cnet

Up Periscope: Inside Twitter’s one-year-old broadcast startup  Mashable

Is Snapchat a Threat to Facebook? 2 Charts Offer Conflicting Answers  Fox Business News

***BIG DATA  

Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics over 700 Years   MIT Tech Review

Big data vs. smart data: the subset will actually apply to your problem-and take you toward a solution  Tech Republic  

Machine learning helps data mining algorithm reveal the chaotic evolution of mathematics over 700 years  Technology Review

Google explains: What it Means to be ofthe Core algorithm  Search Engine Land

***THE INTERNET                       

 What cats can teach us about content creation  PR Daily

***GENDER ISSUES

Thinking They’re ‘Unqualified’ Is A Big Reason More Women Don’t Run For Office   FiveThirtyEight

***RACE

The Unbearable Whiteness of Baseball  New York Times

From multiracial children to gender identity, what some demographers are studying now  Pew Research

Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered  New York Times

***WRITIN’ AND READIN’

Caustic reactions, pro and con, as AP opts to lowercase ‘Internet’  PR Daily

Pay for Editing, Your Writing Will Thank You  Huffington Post

***GRAMMAR         

Sidestepping the Semicolon  Chronicle of Higher Ed

An upcoming puzzle game tasks you with decoding classic literature  KillScreen

***LITERATURE

16 Children’s Books For ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ Families  Huffington Post

State Lawmaker Proposes eliminating grants for students who study "Poetry or some other pre-Walmart major"  Philly

Literature’s Emotional Lessons  The Atlantic

30 Days of Shakespeare: One Reading of the Bard Per Day, by The New York Public Library, on the 400th Anniversary of His Death  Open Culture

***RESEARCH            

The challenges for scientific publishing, 60 years on  Wiley Online Library

The Debunkers of a Gay Marriage Study Just Re-bunked It, Sort Of  Wired

A guide to top medical journals: A primer for healthcare journalists   Michel Accad

***FREE SPEECH

Ninth Circuit ruling in California student expression case may be “dangerous for campus speech,” lawyers say   Student Press Law Center

***ART AND DESIGN

This Tool Makes It Stupid Simple to Turn Data Into Charts  Wired

***RELIGION

Mississippi Residents Divided Over Guns In Churches Law  NPR  

This Pastor Claims He Visited Heaven And Was Able To Take A Selfie  BBC

Mississippi's Religious Objections Law Sparks Backlash From Other States  NPR

Hundreds of libraries in the US are getting complaints for carrying the Bible  Business Insider

A Case For State Religious Freedom Laws  NPR

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Samsung patents smart contact lenses with a built-in camera  Mashable

***JOURNALISM

Stop the presses! 'All the President's Men' and great journalism movies  CNN

Panama Papers Leak Is The Result Of Unprecedented Media Collaboration  NPR

The Queens of Nonfiction: 56 Women Journalists Everyone Should Read  New York Mag

Girl, 9, told to "go play with dolls" over crime coverage  The Globe and Mail

Want to start a small data journalism team in your newsroom? Here are 8 steps  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

If Trump were president: Boston Globe's fake front page dares to imagine  The Guardian

Activist says agents seized anti-Planned Parenthood videosan attack on citizen journalism  USA Today

***STUDENT JOURNALISM

Albion College newspaper apologizes for April Fools' Day story on Hillsdale College closing  Michigan Live

Six reasons you should join your college’s student newspaper  Slippery Rock Student Newspaper

***STUDENT LIFE

Beware Dating Site Scammers and Their Ungrammatical Game  Wired

Breeding Narcissists (New study suggests that narcissistic business students thrive under narcissistic professors, while less narcissistic students suffer, to the detriment of all)  Inside Higher Ed                                               

Are Young Voters Altering Republican And Democratic Primary Races?  NPR

Studies Show That Millennials Are Most Vulnerable to Scams Consumer Reports

Review of two books on girls and growing up  Economist

The age when people are the most popular, according to science  Washington Post

***JOBS

Will You Sprint, Stroll or Stumble Into a Career?  New York Times

The Science of Smart Hiring  The Atlantic

Job Hunting in the Digital Age  New York Times

***SCIENCE

How Scientific Scandal Can Become Scientific Progress  Five Thirty Eight

***NEUROSCIENCE

A Map of the Brain Could Teach Machines to See Like You Wired

IBM Wants to Implant Fake Brains in Real Brains to Prevent Seizures  Wired

Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines (A race to decipher the brain’s algorithms could revolutionize machine learning)  Quanta

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Self-Renewal and Motivation   Becoming (my blog)

***HIGHER ED

States Call For Removal Of College Watchdog For “Spectacular” Failures  Buzz Feed News

The Cost of Remediation (An inadequate high school education can get expensive for students when they need to take remedial courses in college, according to a new report)  Inside Higher Ed

Rifles on campus: College police forces add firepower   Associated Press

Google's 'Education Evangelist': Students Are Changing Faster Than Colleges  Chronicles of Higher Ed

Scholars warn Western universities could be held accountable for conduct in countries in which they operate campuses  Inside Higher Ed

The Pillaging of America's State Universities  The Atlantic

USD Students Get a Personal Assistant Mobile App  Campus Technology

What Higher-Education Professionals Made in 2015-16  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

U Wisconsin Madison professors losing hope of preserving traditional tenure in campus policy  Inside Higher Ed

Less Is More (A detailed class plan full of bullet points is a security blanket. Maybe it’s time to leave more to chance?)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Is plagiarism changing over time? (A 10-year time-lag study with three points of measurement)  Taylor & Francis Group

***CAMPUS CRIME

College tries to withhold names of students charged with misconduct under FERPA  Student Press Law Center 

***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Student Journalists Cleared of Charges for Reporting on Sexual Assault Awareness Event  The FIRE

Revisiting 'Rolling Stone's' Discredited Campus Rape Story  NPR

FIRE Aims to Challenge Legality of Federal Sexual Misconduct Mandate  The FIRE

 

 

Top performers secret: They chunk it

The idea that skill-which is graceful, fluid, and seemingly effortless--should be created by the nested accumulation of small, discrete circuits seems counterintuitive. But a massive body of scientific research shows that this is precisely the way skills are built--and not just for cognitive pursuits like chess.

Physical acts are also built of chunks. When a gymnast learns a floor routine, he assemblies via a series of chunks, which in turn are made up of other chunks. He’s grouped a series of muscle movements together in exactly the same way you grouped a series of letters together to form a Everest. The fluency happens when the gymnast repeats the movements often enough that he knows how to process those chunks as one big chunk, the same way that you process the above sentence.

From below, top performers look incomprehensibly superior, and see if they’ve leaped in a single bound across a huge chasm. They aren't nearly as different from ordinary performers  as they seem. What separates these two levels is not innate superpower but a slowly accrued act  of construction and organization: the building of a scaffolding, bolt by bolt  and circuit by circuit.

Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code

Articles of Interest - April 4

 ***BIG DATA  

Why big data's future is important for NASA  Dataconomy

Is Data Science just a rebrand of statistics? Or do emerging types of data &  technology require a new approach?  Inside Big Data

What a GE data scientist does with their day.. starting with curiosity  Wall Street Journal

The top 12 Data Science & Machine Learning related Podcasts by popularity on iTunes  KD Nuggests

Machine Learning as a Service: How Data Science Is Hitting the Masses  Huffington Post  

***THE INTERNET

How we’re unwittingly letting robots censor the Web  Washington Post

A study of 16 billion e-mails reveals distinct patterns in our e-mail behavior Scientific American

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Snapchat just made a huge change to become your go-to messaging app  Quartz

Facebook and Snapchat are trading blows in a fight for messaging domination and the money that comes with it  Business Insider

***MUSIC

Music industry pushes for digital copyright law reform  Engadget

Pharrell Made Only $2,700 In Songwriter Royalties From 43 Million Plays Of 'Happy' On Pandora   Business Insider

Streaming Has Officially Taken Over the Music Business  TIME magazine

The Math Behind Beethoven’s Music  Open Culture

***RACE

Library of Congress to stop using 'illegal' and 'alien' to describe immigrants, group says  CNN

The Most Prejudiced Places in America  The Daily Beast

Netflix big data truth: some "profiling can’t rely on broad categories like race or location"  Fortune

Some medical students still think black patients feel less pain than whites  Stat News

***SCIENCE

How to (seriously) read a scientific paper  Science Mag

***PSYCHOLOGY    

Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest  New York Times

***NEUROSCIENCE

Let’s debunk these ten brain and brain health myths  Sharp Brains

“Lost” memories can be found (Neuroscientists retrieve missing memories in mice with early Alzheimer’s symptoms)  MIT news

Keeping The Heart Healthy May Protect Brain From Aging  Tech Times

We All Know The "Not Face" – Now We Have A Name For It  NPR

***GRAMMAR         

Being a Subjunctive (Some grammar purists seem to think the English subjunctive is a fragile creature in danger of extinction. As usual they can't tell their adjective from their elbow, says Geoff Pullum)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

Whoo-Hoo for ‘Woo Woo’  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

‘Gangsta’ Shakespeare  Chronicle of Higher Ed

When It Comes To Talking Sex, Young Adult Books Can Be A Parent's Best Friend  NPR

What If Famous Characters from Literature Had Access to Today’s Technology?  The Blaze

Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 book It Can’t Happen Here & Donald Trump (opinion)  The Verge

11 Shakespeare Tragedies Mapped Out with Network Visualizations  Open Culture

***RESEARCH

 10 demographic trends that are shaping the U.S. and the world  Pew Research

This scientist nearly went to jail for making up data  Washington Post

Science community looks for ways to stop fake papers  CBC

Is scientific misconduct a bigger problem than we think?  Science Nordic

***RELIGION

AP Explains: Violence against Christians in Pakistan   Associated Press

Bible charity vows to continue translation work after murders of four employees  Fox News

C.S. Lewis predicted Donald Trump  Washington Post

The Baptist-on-Baptist fight within Georgia’s ‘religious liberty’ debate  AJC

Atheists at University of Iowa protest creation of Muslim prayer rooms  USA Today

***JOURNALISM

A matter of AP Style  Columbia Journalism Review

How Reporters Pulled Off the Panama Papers, the Biggest Leak in Whistleblower History  Wired

Local TV station reads nasty viewer letters on air; women endure the most vicious attacks  Washington Post

The Associated Press style guide will no longer capitalize 'internet'  The Verge

Northwestern University journalism fraud story still has life (opinion)   Illinois’ News-Gazette

AI is already making inroads into journalism but could it win a Pulitzer?   The Guardian  

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Newspapers Gobble Each Other Up to Survive Digital Apocalypse  Bloomberg

Editor and 70-plus others fired at the Orange County Register 

The Hyper-Local Media Magnate Journalism Can’t Ignore  PBS

***STUDENT JOURNALISM

Student Journalists put out Satire Issue at University associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Twitter’s Newest Parody Account Celebrates the Guy at Your J-School  Observer

***STUDENT LIFE

Why I Don't Hire Millennials: I hire individuals  AdAge

Millennial Problems: Being Tone Deaf   San Francisco Weekly

College students mostly support free speech with some restrictions, survey finds   Student Press Law Center

***ACADEMIC LIFE

The Shrinking Ph.D. Job Market  Inside Higher Ed

Why I’m Sticking to My ‘Noncompliant’ Learning Outcomes  Chronicle of Higher Ed

New rule on personal cellphones enrages Minnesota faculty unionsMove will let personal phones be inspected if used for work  StarTribune

***PERSONAL GROWTH

“Imagineering” is the use of mental images to build factual results, and it is an astonishingly effective procedure  Becoming (my blog)

***ETHICS

The eugenic legacy of a 1927 Supreme Court decision to sterilize “imbeciles”  New Republic

***HUMANITIES /STEM

The Humanities Must Rise to the Global Environmental Challenge (opinion)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Theater Majors Are Vital in the Digital Age (opinion)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Is 'Design Thinking' the New Liberal Arts?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***HIGHER ED

Honors Colleges Promise Prestige, but They Don’t All Deliver  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How Sal Khan Hopes to Remake Education  Chronicle of Higher Ed

U of California Accused of Favoring Non-Californians  Inside Higher Ed

Study Abroad and Terror  Inside Higher Ed

Supreme Court Hints at Way to Avert Tie on Birth Control Mandate  New York Times

Christian Universities Increasingly Apply for Exemptions From Anti-Discrimination Rules   Truth Out

***TEACHING

When Plagiarism Is a Plea for Help (Instead of failing students for intellectual dishonesty, shouldn’t we try to help them not fail?)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Major publishers report sales of digital course materials surpass sales of print textbooks for the first time  Inside Higher Ed

New MLA Handbook seeks to make citing sources from a variety of media easier and more commonsensical  Inside Higher Ed

Straight A's for everyone (Behind the College GPA Arms Race)  Washington Post

How To Get Kids Hooked On Books? 'Use Poetry. It Is A Surefire Way'  NPR

 

Articles of Interest - March 28

***THE INTERNET

How Geopolitics and Commerce are Fragmenting the World Wide Web (book review)  Economist

Google Reveals Top Ranking Factors For Search Results  Media Post

How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code  Quartz

***ART AND DESIGN

How physics and math helped create modernist painting  Aeon

Nonverbal Man With Autism and Synesthesia Set to Host First Solo Art Exhibit   ABC News

How Critical Thinking Sabotages Painting premium (Creating art is a very different skill than articulating what art is about-subscription)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

What's The Point Of That Weird Minimalist Art?  (video)  PBS                         

A Guide to the Beautiful, Elaborate ‘Jungle’ of Script Typefaces  Wired

***RESEARCH       

Retractions rise to nearly 700 in fiscal year 2015  Retraction Watch

The mismeasure of scientific significance  Stats.org

***GENDER ISSUES

North Carolina Bans Local Anti-Discrimination Policies   New York Times

Gender-Specific Terms Replaced in Ohio Supreme Court Rules, Forms  Court News Ohio

What Sexual Harassment Does to Female Gamers  New York Mag

More than one in five physicists from sexual and gender minorities in the US report having been excluded, intimidated or harassed at work in the past year because of their gender or sexual identity or expression  Nature

Hate and racism in the South gave rise to ‘social justice journalism’  Poynter

Feminist economics deserves recognition as a distinct branch of the discipline Economist

***LEGAL ISSUES

Donald Trump Wants To 'Open Up' Libel Laws So He Can Sue News Outlets NPR

Rich people are paying lawyers to get truthful stories deleted from the internet  Business Insider

The FBI Drops Its Case Against Apple After Finding a Way Into That iPhone      Wired

***IMAGES

Google Makes Its $149 Photo Editing Software Now Completely Free to Download  Open Culture

One picture from the Brussels attacks is a lesson in the delicate art of propaganda  The Guardian

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter has changed how your timeline works. Here's how to fix it  Chronicle of Higher Ed

We’re More Honest With Our Phones Than With Our Doctors  New York Times

Teen Girls Flip The Negative Script On Social Media   NPR

Inside the world of Twitter's favorite depressive  Elle

Smartphone 'voices' not always helpful in a health crisis  Associated Press

Social media have made the world more democratic—for now  Economist

Inside Facebook’s Quest to Be Your Bestie—By Owning Your Memories  Wired

Even easier communications and ever-growing data mountains are transforming politics   Economist

Social media now play a key role in collective action  Economist

Worries about fraud and fragmentation may prompt a shake-out in the crowded online-ad industry  Economist

***BIG DATA  

Streaming analytics speeds decision making by high velocity real-time data diving. Here's an overview Inside Big Data  

Could voter targeting thru more data/better algorithms mean the democratic process becomes a marketing exercise?  Economist

MITs 1-year $75k #BigData finishing school (& its many rivals)-Is it really necessary? For many, the answer is no  Financial Times

Machine learning intro with limited math & theoretical constructs  Economist

***RELIGION

Birth Control At The Supreme Court: Does Free Coverage Violate Religious Freedom?  NPR

Evangelicals Key To Republican Support For Israel  NPR

New Kansas Law Lets Campus Religious Groups Restrict Members  ABC News

Pope Washes Feet of Muslim Migrants at Easter Week Mass  TIME

A religious gender gap for Christians, but not for Muslims  Pew Research

Little Sisters argue contraception case at Supreme Court  Baltimore Sun

***ADVERTISING

Mobile Advertising: Ad-blocking may not quickly spread to smartphones  Economist

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

U.S. Ad Market Forecast 2016: A Good Year, But Some Slowdowns For TV, Radio  Media Post

A startup seeks to keep the conventional TV station alive in the digital era  Economist

***JOURNALISM

Vice Media Traffic Plummets, Underscoring Risky Web Strategy  Variety

The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts (Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get)   Nieman Labs

Ohio TV station tries to convince its viewers to cancel their newspaper subscriptions   Daily Dot

British journalism is 94% white and 55% male, survey reveals  The Guardian

Blendle Is Here To Re-Invent The Way You Consume Journalism  Huffington Post

Wesleyan student government revokes student newspaper's funds  Student Press Law Center

***STUDENT LIFE

When Depression Hits, Teens Find Help  NPR

Why are our kids so miserable?  Quartz

Here's What Young People Care About. Listen And Learn  NPR

How millennials should deal with baby boomers at work (opinion)  LA Times  

The Disturbing Truth About Anxiety and Depression in College (Why was I so unhappy after finally making it to college? And what was my cure?)  Psychology Today

Young, Broke, and Scared of the IRS: The Millennial Tax Trap  Bloomberg

How millennials should deal with baby boomers at work (opinion)  LA Times

What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace?  New York Times

A Wave of Sexual-Assault Cases Kindles Anger on Baylor’s Campus (subscription)  Chronicle of Higher Ed  

***SCIENCE

Data & Narrative: Our Brains Like Numbers But Love A Good Story  Digg (video)

Big-name scientists may end up stifling progress in their fields  Economist

Science Needs to Learn How to Fail So It Can Succeed  Wired

*PERSONAL GROWTH

Don't forget the blue goat  Becoming (my blog)

***PHILOSOPHY

What happened when the World Bank asked a philosophy professor to consider its policies  Quartz

***ETHICS

The Ethics of Doing Ethics (over view of ethical issues that arise in research into ethics)  Springer

***WRITIN’ AND READIN’

An Exercise in Bad Writing  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Virginia Woolf Offers Gentle Advice on “How One Should Read a Book”  Open Culture

***LANGUAGE

The theories of the world’s best-known linguist have become rather weird  Economist

***LITERATURE

Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an “Insignificant, Inartistic Writer”; 40 Years Later, George Orwell Weighs in on the Debate  Open Culture

***HIGHER ED

How LinkedIn Views Its Role in Education (subscription) Chronicle of Higher Ed

Does Engineering Education Breed Terrorists? (Nascent terrorists seem to be drawn to engineering. Their education may further radicalize them)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

AAUP Slams Education Dept. and Colleges Over Title IX Enforcement   Chronicle of Higher Ed

AAUP:  Title IX as a Threat to Academic Freedom  Inside Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

A Professor and His College Fight over Learning Outcomes  Chronicle of Higher Ed

What You Teach Is What You Earn: Study Finds Large Salary Gaps based on Discipline  Inside Higher Ed   

What Tenured and Tenure-Track Professors at 4-Year Colleges Made in 2015-16  Chronicle of Higher Ed